- NASA JPL
- Curiosity’s first image from Mars
Think about what you did today. Did you get off the couch and successfully retrieve an icy cold beverage? Well if you worked for NASA your day would have a bit more productive. The near car-sized, 1-ton Mars rover Curiosity just landed on Mars. After a 352-million-mile voyage to the red planet, and as NASA dubbed it, “7 Minutes of Terror,” the successful landing of the rover is quite the feat.
This article appears in Aug 2-8, 2012.
